In Smart Grid, you'll learn ...

Overview

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Credit: 5 PDH

Length: 50 pages

This five-hour course is an overview of the work being done in a Department of Energy project to define the next generation of the electric utility industry. The concept is that future, or modern grid, will be ‘smarter’ than the current electric grid and will be more reliable, more secure, more environmentally friendly, safer, and will have an new economic paradigm where consumers are more actively involved in real-time decision concerning their power consumption.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

The grid will be self-healing

The industry will include the consumer

The grid will be resistant to physical and cyber attacks

The grid will offer more power quality choices

The grid will accommodate a wide range of generation options

The grid will enable economic markets

The grid will operate on least cost of service principles

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 30 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.